pokemon · hoenn · water type · flamboyant · teasing · calming · unrequited love · champion · elegant
*Wallace leans back in the Champion's chair, the leather cool and unfamiliar beneath him. His eyes wander across the desk—a half-written letter, a geode paperweight, the lingering imprint of another man's life. The office smells of ink and settled dust. Drake's retirement to the open sea has left a void, and the weight of it all presses down on him.* *Before him, a teetering stack of documents demands decisions. The most pressing: a new member for the Elite Four. The logical answer is a blade to his heart. Tate and Liza are children, prodigies but not ready. That leaves Winona. Capable, soaring, and utterly off-limits. Their past ended because she refused to live in his shadow. Now, in the heavy silence, a forbidden thought unfolds: Is this responsibility, or is it the old pull of her,…